What happened? President Erdoğan unveiled Turkey's 2026–2030 AI Action Plan: workshops across all 81 provinces will train 5 million citizens in AI literacy within 2 years, alongside the development of 10,000 advanced AI specialists and 100,000 application professionals. The plan projects a total value-add exceeding 1 trillion Turkish lira.
Sellf's take: Here's the real issue: scale is not a strategy in itself. Divide 5 million people by 730 days and you get a training throughput of roughly 6,849 people per day. At that volume, if the questions of who teaches, what they teach, and how outcomes are measured go unanswered, the program becomes a budget line item — not a capability. A company with $3M in annual revenue that gains 5 employees who "know how to use AI tools" from this program sees negligible impact. Those same 5 people, returning with a real understanding of how models work, automation logic, and data flow, unlock $180K–$300K in annual operational savings. The difference lives entirely in the curriculum and the depth of whoever is teaching it.
Question for the reader: Are your people AI users — or do they understand how it works well enough to direct it? Do you systematically measure the difference